Weight Loss Drugs in Workers’ Comp: A Justified Expense?
When I first entered the world of case management and cost containment dealing with workers compensation cases, a frequent request was for injured individuals with low back pain complaints to have a treadmill placed into their homes, precipitating weight loss and improvement with respect to the low back pain complaints. The running joke became what was the world's most expensive clothes hanger, and the answer is that treadmill. The Rise…